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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Mar 7 '21

Getting Started with Node.js

#opensource #beginners #html #codenewbie

2 min read

Mar 4 '21

How to create and pin a gist on GitHub

#github #opensource #gist #tutorial

3 min read

Brandon Roberts

Mar 5 '21

My Journey into Developer Relations

#devrel #career #nrwl #opensource

3 min read

Mar 5 '21

Markdown Link Checking in GitHub with Actions

#beginners #opensource #github #javascript

4 min read

Mar 6 '21

Building A LMS: What I Have Accomplished In Two Years

#saas #opensource #nextjs #javascript

7 min read

Mohammed Farmaan.

Mar 5 '21

Weatherify: A Simple Weather App using Flutter.

#showdev #opensource #flutter #webdev

1 min read

Rob OLeary

Mar 3 '21

Making a living from open source

#opensource #webdev

7 min read

vincent d warmerdam

Mar 3 '21

A `for`-loop to stop writing.

#python #sideprojects #opensource

6 min read

Mar 3 '21

GitHub Profile README Generator

#python #opensource #github #markdown

2 min read

Javid Mougamadou

Feb 26 '21

DayJS: Awesome lightweight modern Date API and an alternative to MomentJS

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Vishal Narkhede

Mar 1 '21

React Native: How To Build Bidirectional Infinite Scroll

#reactnative #infinitescroll #opensource

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 1 '21

AWS open source news and updates #58

#aws #opensource

16 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 22 '21

Free and open source Bootstrap 5 UI Kit

#opensource #bootstrap #css #javascript

3 min read

Feb 28 '21

Tips For Beginners to Open Source

#tips #beginners #opensource #advice

4 min read

Feb 28 '21

Are We Really Doing Continuous Integration?

#git #devops #opensource

4 min read

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